These things are way worse now that everything is digital.
Used to be, the slots were mechanical tumblers that aligned to a win extremely rarely (but were still determined randomly).
Now, it's a computer program that builds a profile of your behavior to predict when you start losing interest and/or hope, and might leave the machine, teasing you with "near-wins" (example, getting 4 out of 5 cherries) to keep you thinking you almost won, and even giving you small wins to keep you engaged, at the machine, and continuously plugging in more money. All determined by a computer profiling program.
Absolutely nothing about it is random anymore.
Used to be, the slots were mechanical tumblers that aligned to a win extremely rarely (but were still determined randomly).
Now, it's a computer program that builds a profile of your behavior to predict when you start losing interest and/or hope, and might leave the machine, teasing you with "near-wins" (example, getting 4 out of 5 cherries) to keep you thinking you almost won, and even giving you small wins to keep you engaged, at the machine, and continuously plugging in more money. All determined by a computer profiling program.
Absolutely nothing about it is random anymore.